lavieenrose
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Post by lavieenrose on Jan 10, 2007 22:39:39 GMT -5
I don't normally enjoy reading fiction, but I'd like to start. So, if you don't mind, tell the best or the most recent book(s) you have read, and why you liked them - there's too much out there to choose from and inadequate descriptions on the jackets! Hopefully, someone else can profit from this thread too.
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bu
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Post by bu on Jan 10, 2007 22:55:33 GMT -5
I myself love anything by Christopher Moore. Try his latest, called "It's a Dirty Job". It's about a young married man whose wife unfortunately dies during childbirth, and then some weird tall dude in a green suit comes into her hospital room and steals her soul by storing it on a CD. All hell then breaks loose after that. And it's all good.
~Bu
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Post by cherryflute on Jan 10, 2007 23:21:32 GMT -5
Christopher Moore's stuff is good- my favorite is 'Lamb', which is the story of Jesus as told by his surfer-ish friend.
Laurie Notaro also writes really good short stories- her book 'The Idiot Girl's Action Adventure Club' and 'We Thought You'd be Prettier' are really great, especially if you have a short attention span.
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Post by moomama18 on Jan 10, 2007 23:22:50 GMT -5
Two good ones -
The Guilded Chamber by Rebecca Kohn - a wonderful version of the story of Esther and her live in the concubine of King Xerxes. I enjoyed the author's style of writing - her descriptions were very easy to visualize and it was an easy read.
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Neffeneger - this one was an amazing love story. I had a very hard time putting it down. Once again I enjoyed the author's style - a very unusually written book.
Good luck!!
I've also read some great books that have story lines along the likes of Bridget Jones' Diary and they were relaxing reads.
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Post by duranimal on Jan 11, 2007 0:54:01 GMT -5
Moonmama, I believe we must think alike. I read Time Traveler's wife and LOVED it! I also love the "chick books" when I just want to relax with something that doesn't tax the brain but is fun nonetheless- I just read "Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination" by Helen Fielding (author of Bridget Jones Diary) which you'd certainly like if you enjoy those types of books as well!!
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Post by ksarah on Jan 11, 2007 2:02:41 GMT -5
I just finished reading "Something Borrowed" and "Something Blue" By Emily Griffin. They are good ol' fashioned Chick reads. I normally read things during the year that require some sort of brain power, but during the Holidays, I give the old noggin a break.
Now I am reading "Devil In The White City" by Eric Larson. Not only because it was in the last reader, but also because my neighbor gave me the book a while back and said that I must read it. It had made its way through her entire family.
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Post by ivyagogo on Jan 11, 2007 3:28:43 GMT -5
I'm in the process of listening to The Subtle Knife by Phillip Pullman. It is the second book in the His Dark Materials series. I am a Harry Potter fanatic and like reading stuff like that. I also have a large pile of Stephen King books I have been slowly plowing through.
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Post by ultimatemind on Jan 11, 2007 5:30:04 GMT -5
I've just started a couple of new ones, The End of California by Steve Yarbrough, and A Family Daughter by Maile Meloy.
I just finished a rather strange one called Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn, in which an island's council gradually bans letters of the alphabet.
A couple recent favorites of mine are The Price of Land in Shelby by Laure Alberts (you other children of the 70's & 80's will like that one) and The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. Also anything by Bill Bryson, if you're looking for a good laugh.
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Post by femmefatale on Jan 11, 2007 6:22:27 GMT -5
I'm loving Jodi Piccoult I've read The Pact, Plain Truth and just finished Perfect Match. The Pact is good.. but not the best of the 3 i've read, it's basically about childhood sweethearts who make a pact to commit suicide and unfortunately only one of them dies.. the other is then suspected of her murder. It looks into how this affects the two families (they lived next door to each other!) Plain Truth is a great book.. it's about an Amish girl who has a baby without exposing that she was ever pregnant to her family.. unfortunately the baby dies just after birth (in a barn). It is also a bit of a love/soul searching story for a family friend who represents her. Perfect Match.. WOW !! great book.. i thoroughly enjoyed this one.. it's not a very nice basis .. a little boy gets sexually molested (although the book doesn't go into graphic detail..thankfully) his mother is a prosecuter for abused children and knows the general outcome of these kind of cases.. takes things into her own hands.. the twists are great.. and keep you guessing up to the end.. FAB book.. really recommended love debs ~X~
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Post by dannilou on Jan 11, 2007 8:20:51 GMT -5
Currently reading The Ex Boyfriends Handbook by Matt Dunn. Its about a thrity something guy that gets dumped by his girlfriend of 10 years after she pisses off to Tibet, leaving him a note telling him hes "let himself go". Its a lighthearted, witty story about the poor guy trying to transform himself to win her back. Just a nice, easy read.
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